4.4 Cascading Consoles
(New Feature)
Cascading simply means connecting
two consoles together. You can currently
cascade a maximum of two consoles. One
console acts as master and the other as
the slave mixer. They function as separate
mixers, but the slave mixer submixes into
the main mixer via 8 audio paths (assign-
able buses via the ALT I/O slot), and a
subset of the controller functions may be
accessed from either console (solo, V-Pot
control, cue assignment and fader bank se-
D i g i t a l 8 Y B u slection).
Note: You can only cascade two con-
soles together, but you can network more
than two consoles.
To enable Cascading, click on the Setup
button in the lower menu bar and select
ONetwork� (there is no console equivalent
for this function). The Network window
contains the following checkboxes and
drop-downs to cascade the console after
networking has been established.
Cascade Mode (Master, Slave or Off
choices)
Determines which console will act as
Master and which console will act as
Slave. The Off option bypasses network/
cascade modes.
Transmit Options
These checkboxes link the following
cross-console operations:
Fader Banks
Allows simultaneous fader deck selec-
tion on cascaded consoles; e.g., all Bank 1,
all Bank 2, etc.
Aux Strip
Allows simultaneous aux strip selection
on cascaded consoles; i.e., all Aux 1 con-
trol, all Pan control, all Level To Tape
control, etc.
Cue Controls
Allows simultaneous Cue Section selec-
tion on cascaded consoles; e.g., calling up
Near Fields or changing the master level
speaker output occurs simultaneously on
both consoles.
Solo Logic
Allows the solo mode and solo logic to
work cooperatively across cascaded con-
soles. Note that it would probably be
advantageous to cascade the solo bus
across from the slave to the master con-
sole (see OAudio Connections� next).
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